Reviewed: Pale Green Ghosts and The Low Highway
Addictive personalities.Pale Green Ghosts (Bella Union);
The Low Highway (New West)
John Grant; Steve Earle
Male singer-songwriters aren’t usually encouraged to share their pain – at least, not in the teary, chest-beating sense. John Grant’s 2010 debut, Queen of Denmark, was a rarity, a luxuriant journey through 1970s-style melodic rock (Carpenters, early Elton) studded with sardonic lyrics about being a gay junkie in small-town America.
Grant looked like a trucker but he had the magical mindset of a child: in songs such as Sigourney Weaver (“I feel just like
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